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LAND Management: Assessment, Research, Knowledge base (LANDMARK)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

LANDMARK is a pan-European multi-actor consortium of leading academic and applied research institutes, chambers of agriculture and policy makers that will develop a coherent framework for soil management aimed at sustainable food production across Europe.The LANDMARK proposal builds on the concept that soils are a finite resource that provides a range of ecosystem services known as “soil functions ...
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Reseach Infrastructures Training Programme (RItrain)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

There has never been a greater need for skilled managers and operators of research infrastructure (RI). Europe must develop the workforce that will turn ~50 nascent RIs with sites in different countries into powerhouses of support for major projects comparable to understanding the blueprint of life or discovering new subatomic particles. RItrain will develop a flagship training programme enabling ...
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Support, Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia (SMART4MD)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

As Europe’s population is ageing, long-term care for elderly citizens will become an increasing cost for society. To manage this transition healthcare policies in the EU and individual Member States are heavily focussed on extending the independent life of the elderly, with the dual aim of increasing their quality of life and reducing the costs of care. Dementia affects more than 6% of people aged ...
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FRAY LUIS DE LEÓN III

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

...ectronics - Hospitality and tourism- Information technology and communications - Installation and maintenance - Personal image - Sound and vision - Wood, furniture and cork - Health- Sociocultural and community services - Transport and vehicle maintenanceNeeds and problems of young students and/or graduates from Cuenca in these sectors are broadly:- A high rate of youth unemployment. - Little or n ...
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Framework to respond to regulatory needs of future nanomaterials and markets (FutureNanoNeeds)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Rapidly developing markets such as green construction, energy harvesting and storage, advanced materials for aerospace, electronics, medical implants and environmental remediation are potential key application targets for nanomaterials. There, nanotechnology has the potential to make qualitative improvements or indeed even to enable the technology. Impacts range from increased efficiency of energy ...
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Incorporating real-life clinical data into drug development (GETREAL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

...ure value of the medicines when used in “real world” clinical practice requires additional information next to traditional (pre-authorisation) clinical trials. Regulatory, HTA agencies and other healthcare decision makers have to make decisions on authorisation and access under conditions of uncertainty. Currently, data packages which aim to minimise uncertainty on safety and efficacy may leave ...
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Joining up ICT and service processes for quality integrated care in Europe (SmartCare)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Against the background of the European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing, SmartCare aims to define a common set of standard functional specifications for an open ICT platform enabling the delivery of integrated care to older European citizens. A total of 24 regions and their key stakeholders will define a comprehensive set of integration building blocks around the challenges of dat ...
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Stem Cells for Relevant Efficient Extended and Normalized Toxicology (SCR&TOX)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

In the development of products for use by humans it is vital to identify compounds with toxic properties at an early stage of their development, to avoid spending time and resource on unsuitable and potentially unsafe candidate products. Human pluripotent stem cell lines offer a unique opportunity to develop a wide variety of human cell-based test systems because they may be expanded indefinitely ...
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EPIC-CVD: Individualised CVD risk assessment: tailoring targeted and cost-effective approaches to Europe's diverse populations (EPIC-CVD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...fective individualised risk assessment that enables the EU's increasingly resource-constrained economies to achieve more personalised predictive medicine in harmony with Europe's diverse cultures and healthcare systems.We will achieve this through developing and validating innovative risk scores and efficient screening strategies by studying 75 high priority soluble biomarkers and 215,000 carefull ...
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EUROPEAN NETWORK for CANCER research in CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS (ENCCA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...e. Patients and their families will be full partners and will be better informed about the need for and processes of clinical research. They will be in a better situation to care from their long term health risks for children. Drug development will be accelerated in partnership with industry through improved access to young patients with cancer, to academic expertise in care, clinical and biologic ...
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Expanding Health Data Interoperability Services (EXPAND)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

This TN aims to address the challenge of moving from a set of point-solution pilots to a large-scale deployment of cross-border facilities that support Member States in delivering their local eHealth plans and providing cross-border care. In particular, the objective of the Network is to maintain and expand already existing available infostructure resources and act as a catalyst for real operatio ...
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Prediction of cognitive properties of new drug candidates for neurodegenerative diseases in the early clinical development (PHARMA-COG)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...pharmacologists.By the end of this (-year project, the following achievements are expected; definition of the most predictive combination of pharmacodynamic markers; validation of parallel models (in healthy volunteers, ApoE 4 subjects,patients and animals) to establish effective exposure ranges and support proof of mechanism studies. The predictive value of the 'matrix' will be evaluated using di ...
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lateforme Cognitive pour l'Assistance aux Personnes Dépendantes (COALAS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

COALAS aims to involve social and technical sciences to address a major challenge: the home care of disabled persons, by focusing on the development of innovative solutions based on ICT.
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latform for improving maritime coastal pollution preparedness and response in Atlantic regions (ARCOPOLPLATFORM)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

ARCOPOLplatform aims to further improve maritime safety in the Atlantic area and reinforce the protection of the coastal regions from maritime pollution through the capitalization and upgrading of ARCOPOL and ARCOPOLplus outcomes. Specifically, ARCOPOLplatform will organise pilot actions addressing local authorities to support the implementation of Local Contingency Plans. Moreover, these plans wi ...
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Impress Health 2

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

IMPRESS HEALTH 2 aims to contribute to the fight against HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) by studying obstacles to HIV detection. Studies of individuals' behaviours, actions to raise awareness and training of the medical staff will improve the intervention in early HIV diagnosis.
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Pharmacoepidemiolocal Research on Outcomes of Therapeutics by a European ConsorTium (PROTECT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

...velop essential parameters, methodologies and algorithms to enable data mining, signal detection and evaluation in various types ofdata-sets including spontaneous reporting, registries and electronic health care databases (EHR). impact analysismethods will be used to enhance signal prioritisation.PROTECT will develop means of combining results from clinical trials, spontaneous reporting and observ ...
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Capitalising Climate Change Knowledge for Adaptation in the Alpine Space (C3-Alps)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

C3-Alps will synthesize, transfer and implement in policy and practice results of previous Alpine Space projects on climate change adaptation. The capitalisation approach aims at a) generating new and directly usable forms of state-of-the-art synthesis adaptation knowledge in the Alps, harmonised across sectors and useful to adaptation decision-makers, b) its effective and tailor-made communicatio ...
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Empowerment of Disabled people through Ethics in Care & Technology (EDECT)

Start date: Jan 31, 2014, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

The aim is to further investigate the importance of dignity in care in the design and testing of assistive technology as well as reinforcing the role of technology in future care of disable people, and preparing the care network for these changes.
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Smart Open Services - Open eHealth Initiative for a European Large Scale Pilot of Patient Summary and Electronic Prescription (epSOS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

...reflect the focus on patient needs.Patient summaries and ePrescriptionsPatient summaries and electronic prescriptions (ePrescriptions) are two key services that enable high quality medical care. Such health records provide health professionals with essential information on the medical and medication history of the patient. In many situations access to such information can save lives (for example i ...
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Embryonic Stem cell-based Novel Alternative Testing Strategies (ESNATS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"ESNATS aims at developing a novel toxicity test platform based on embryonic stem cells (ESC), especially human ESC (hESC), to accelerate drug development, reduce R&D costs and propose a powerful alternative to animal tests (3 Rs). ESNATS will address current drug-testing shortcomings: - testing takes place late in the development cycle - animal test systems bear the risk of non-prediction due to ...
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DETECTION OF SAFETY CRITICAL CRACKS AND CORROSION IN SHIPS USING NOVEL SENSORS AND SYSTEMS BASED ON ULTRASONIC LINEAR PHASED ARRAY TECHNOLOGY (Ship Inspector)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

Structural failure is a major cause of the wreckage of ships, vessels and tankers and causes loss of life and pollution of the seas and coastal waters of Europe as follows: §In 2004, the total amount of oil and oil products transported by sea reached the two billion-tonne/year mark (more than 40 % of total maritime traffic). The European Union accounts for 27 % of this traffic, with 90 % of Europe ...
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Interoperability of connected Personal Health Systems (PHS) with the wider eHealth domain – Promoting the smart delivery of health services (SmartPersonalHealth)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

The overall benefits of eHealth can only be realised if stakeholders comprehend and support interoperability of eHealth infrastructures and applications, as outlined in the recent EC Com-munication on Cross-border Interoperability of Electronic Health Records. This Support Action will promote interoperability (IOp) among Personal Health Systems (PHS) and between eHealth systems – in the landscape ...
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Cross Border Association of Public Health and Social Medicine (Cross Border Association)

Start date: Aug 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2010,

...ports bilingues d’évaluation des visites dans le Kent et dans la Somme.----------------Main objective :The CROSS BORDER ASSOCIATION project aims to improve health and life conditions of people suffering from social exclusion. Its goal is to implement a cross-border network for public health & social care professionals. Indeed, social inequalities very often produce health inequalities. As an examp ...
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Addressing Behavioural Attitudes Towards Risky Behaviour: An International Literature Review (SELF EFFICACY)

Start date: Aug 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2010,

...-------Main achievements :- Document produced by Anne-Sophie Bernin: Self efficacy in literature and Theories and concepts used in the field of health promotion- Creation of an online database integrating the results of the literature review- Exchange of policies and good practice between the project partners- Organisation of a work seminar (10 September 2010 – University of Kent)
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On the spot – Youth Work in Georgia

Start date: Dec 1, 2012,

The Study Visit “On the spot – Youth Work in Georgia” is dedicated to youth work on community level and volunteering in a development context and would like to introduce the youth work reality in Georgia as an example of the EECA region to its participants.The study visit offer visits to Georgian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working with young people with fewer opportunities, particularly ...
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Gathering potentials – Developing sustainable part

Start date: Dec 1, 2012,

The PBA “Gathering potentials – Developing sustainable partnerships: Struggling Youth Unemployment in Europe mutually” is aimed to gather youth NGOs from programme countries and neighbouring partner countries from SEEto create stable partnerships for common youth activities in order to promote the personal, social and professional competence of unemployed youth, to share how to stimulate mobility ...
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Medical Education in Europe 2

Start date: Oct 1, 2009,

...ucation in Europe will build on the work of the MEDINE Network 2004-2007. The Networks is requiered because the education and training of medical doctors to high standard is critical to the physical health, well-being, productivity and social cohesion of European society. Variours issues must be addressed. Despite facilitative legislation, mobility of medical students and practitioners within Eur ...
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European Core Learning Outcomes for the Integration of Support and Housing

The project addresses a need for CVET on the integration of support and housing for vulnerable people, including those with disabilities, mental health needs and/or experience of homelessness. The project has identified six core learning outcomes, following a research exercise into the services, settings and training available in the sector in EU countries. These outcomes have been incorporated in ...
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Network forTuning Standards & Quality of Educ.progs. for SLT in Europe

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

Speech and language therapists(SLT)s are responsible for managing the needs of all people with Speech Language & Communication Difficulties (SLCD). They work in health, education, social care environments, private practice & research and can make significant contributions to people s quality of life and inclusion in terms of health, economic & psychosocial wellbeing.In order to provide effective t ...
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Evropska mladinska tobacna konferenca - European Tobacco Youth Conference

Start date: Aug 1, 2013,

The First European Youth Tobacco Conference will take place in Izola, Slovenia between 15th and 21st September 2013 gathering 74 young people from 17 European countries. The main topic of the conference will be Tobacco control and other measures in order to assure then pandemic of tobacco will end sooner than expected.The project will feature several workshops, two plenary sessions, informal activ ...
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